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Sunday, 31 May 2015

Muppets, the saga continues!

Photo 01 - 5 bags of cut grass deposited at Summerhope!

Muppets the saga continues!

Mr Xxxxx phoned
midweek with some troubling but not unexpected news. A group of five “anglers”
from the Livingstone area left behind them what could only be described as the
beginnings of an illegal landfill site! They arrived under the banner of
anglers but left under the title above Muppets and Wastrels!

Unfortunately
we cannot trace these individuals due to insufficient details on their permits
having been sold by a third party seller! What motivates these Muppets is
beyond my ken. What is it that makes the leaving of huge amounts of rubbish acceptable,
I do not know! They obviously do not think of the individuals that have to give
of their own time clearing up the mess, in this case Keith!

Our policy
is to expose fools and Muppets but since we do not have any details on them we
can only do this on a limited basis! Me Xxxxx has let us know that he would like
these idiot banned from fishing and we are in full agreement! So if you read this chaps do not come back
you are no longer welcome at our lochs!

In another
incident last week one “angler” was found to be wandering around Bowerhope with
a catapult firing at god what. This is completely unacceptable behaviour with
the potential for injuring stock or indeed humans! They had hired a boat and Mr Xxxxx was there to greet them on their return. On questioning the individual he
said that he was firing at a ram as it was getting too close to him and he felt
threatened!

After explaining
the serious errors in their behaviour Mr Xxxxx felt there was no alternative but to
bar them from fishing! In addition to the incident the anglers were 45mins late
and were an hour late in returning to the boathouse giving Mr Xxxxx 2 hours of
extra work! So the Muppet season barely started and already seven “anglers”
barred from fishing. It’s not looking
good!

Yet another
incident this week saw 5 bags of rubbish dumped over a wall at Summerhope by
persons unknown! The haul consisted of 5 bags full of freshly cut grass and a
cardboard box! Doubtless this is the result of the local council’s decision to
no longer collect garden waste! Grass is biodegradable it makes excellent
compost or can be dumped under a hedge to feed that hedge over the space of a
year. Why bag it and dump it? When we allowed comments on our blog it became
apparent very quickly there are many Muppets out there, looks like there are more than we thought!

Photo 02 - Contractors lowering the level of the loch!

Inter club competition!

Our unexpected
team fished on Tuesday evening against two anglers from Duns. The chosen team of
Stevie Nimmo and Pete Young had to be changed at the last minute as Pete had
done his back in so I had to step in and take his place. It was a dour cold
night with only two fish seen breaking the surface and only the odd swallow
looking for food. I tried dry’s for the first hour managing to rise nothing! As
to matching the hatch there was nothing to match so I went for spiders and
olives.

Both me and
my fishing partner religiously went through our fly boxes to no avail and it
was only around 21.30 that my line went tight quickly retrieving what I am told
was an appetiser! My partner quickly changed to a similarly coloured “minky
tail” and promptly hooked two fish and then it went dead again.

At the weigh
in the other boat saw Stevie with two fish and his partner with 3 fish! We weighed
in around 6lbs and the Dun’s lads at 9lbs. I also learned how to do the roly
poly retrieve a useful tool for the plastic fisher! Not the most enthralling
evenings fishing I’ve ever had but it was good company with two real anglers
with no bullies or Muppets in sight! Well
done Duns!

Great deals on the net!

From one of
our members the new TFG Banshee Carp Bomb carp rod at a great price eclipsing
shopkeepers everywhere! £25.00 will get you one post free from Fishtec perhaps
the defining reason our High Streets are dying! Click the link to see the offer
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Funny how it
all comes out in the wash, Scotland’s only Puppet MP Puppet Carmichael now
found out to be lying over the smearing of Nicola Sturgeon in the run up to the
election! He has declined to accept the pay off entitled to him for being the
Tory puppet in charge of Scottish affairs! That however is not enough, he
committed the most serious of offences seen all too often in puppets that of
being an outright liar!

A campaign
has started to oust him as an MP which is fair enough, but if puppet Carmichael
had any sense of propriety he would resign immediately! He has betrayed the
electorate just like his leader the king of liars puppet Clegg, and must pay the price! He is
desperately trying to hang on and legally may be entitled to do so. The fact
remains however he has lost all credibility and the electorate would think more
of him if he did the right thing and bowed out under a cloud! There is no
question the puppets days are numbered he should accept his wrongdoing and go,
if a by election was held he would be ousted no problem!

The Puppets were finished the moment
they got into bed with the vile Tories Puppet Carmichael is simply the last
nail in the coffin!

Lewis Hamilton – a sportsman?

This is a
thought that came to mind last week on hearing of the rumoured 300 million
pound contract reportedly paid by Mercedes to secure his services for the next
few years. Firstly the sum of money involved is nothing short of scandalous and
reflects just how ridiculous and unequal our society has become. The likelihood is that in
the real world it is questionable as to whether or not he would be able to earn
the minimum wage!

Oh indeed he
has worked hard and his family have supported him to a huge extent but neither
he nor anyone else is worth that amount of money, when people all over the
world are dying of hunger! No one could deny Hamilton is super fit indeed
athletic but does his fitness and skill determine whether or not he will win
the drivers’ championship!

I would
contend not! Being a racing driver is different to being a true athlete like
Jessica Ennis Hill. Hill has risen to the top by training her body to give the
best it can, Hamilton probably does the same, the difference however is that Hilldoes not make use of a piece of machinery on
which millions have been invested to secure her titles!

If you look
at all the formula one drivers they are equally fit or more so when compared to
Hamilton what separates these drivers is the cars that they drive! Looking back
there have been several “procession” winners such as Michael Schumacher
Sebastian Vettel and possibly in the future Louis Hamilton if Mercedes retain their superiority. In years preceding
their winning streaks they were in second rate cars and on moving to the top car
of the moment started to win and dominate racing! Conversely if Hamilton was to
drive the current Force India car you can bet on the fact that he would not be
on the podium, probably way down the field!

It simply depends
on the resources of the driving team and teams like Ferrari and Mercedes
dominate because of their huge resources. Winning an F1 race says more about
the team’s technology and financial muscle than it does about the skill of the
driver! Yes Hamilton is a dedicated and skilful driver there is no question of that but a sportsman in the
true sense of the word, never in a
hundred years!

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